LuisCarvajalydelaCueva was a Portuguese royal accountant and a New Christian, who received a royal charter to settle the large expanse of land in the hostile frontier, named Nuevo Leon.

LuisdeCarvajal was the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexico province in which the restriction against immigration from conversos was relaxed in order to encourage migration to the peril-fraught frontier.

Luisdecarvajal el mozo, was the nephew of Jose LuisCarvajalydelaCueva, the only crypto Jew of the Spanish colonial era whose memoirs have been preserved.

Her children to be burned are Leonor, wife of fugitive Jorge de Almeida (Nunez-Rodriguez de Rivera-Castellanos-Fonseca-Hernandez), Isabel (widow of Gabriel de Herrera), Catalina (wife of fugitive Antonio Diaz de Casarez) and Luis Rodriguez de Matos, also known as LuisdeCarvajal el mozo (the younger).

Luis the younger, or Iosef the Enlightened as he chose to call himself, refused all pretenses and was burned alive.

LuisCarvajalydelaCueva was a Portuguese royal accountant and a New Christian, who received a royal charter to settle the large expanse of land in the hostile frontier, named Nuevo Leon.

LuisdeCarvajal was the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexico province in which the restriction against immigration from conversos was relaxed in order to encourage migration to the peril-fraught frontier.

LuisdeCarvajal el Mozo, was the nephew of Jose LuisCarvajalydelaCueva, the only crypto Jew of the Spanish colonial era whose memoirs have been preserved.

LuisdeCarvajalydelaCueva, governor, adventurer, slave trader, and the first Spanish subject to enter Texas from Mexico across the lower Rio Grande, was born in Mogodorio, Portugal, about 1540, the son of Gaspar deCarvajal and Francisca De León, Jewish converts to the Christian faith.

For his life and that of his heir, Carvajal was granted the title of governor and captain-general with authority to "discover, pacify, and settle" a new province to be called the Nuevo Reyno de León.

Carvajal finally was overtaken at Almadén, which he had established with "renegades who acknowledged neither God nor king," to carry on his slaving operation among peaceful Indians.

LuisCarvajalydelaCueva was a Portuguese royal accountant and a New Christian, who received a royal charter to settle the large expanse of land in the hostile frontier, named Nuevo Leon.

LuisdeCarvajal was the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexico province in which the restriction against immigration from conversos was relaxed in order to encourage migration to the peril-fraught frontier.

Luisdecarvajal el mozo, was the nephew of Jose LuisCarvajalydelaCueva, the only crypto Jew of the Spanish colonial era whose memoirs have been preserved.

LuisCarvajalydelaCueva was a Portuguese royal accountant and a New Christian, who received a royal charter to settle the large expanse of land in the hostile frontier, named Nuevo Leon.

LuisdeCarvajal was the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexico province in which the restriction against immigration from conversos was relaxed in order to encourage migration to the peril-fraught frontier.

LuisdeCarvajal, el mozo, was the nephew of Jose LuisCarvajalydelaCueva, the only crypto Jew whose memoir and religious writings have been preserved.

The play is based mainly on authentic material, fundamentally on the "Trials of LuisdeCarvajal (the Younger)", published by the Archivo General dela Nación de los E.E.U.U. Mejicanos in 1935, a document including the Memoirs, Testament, and Letters of Carvajal himself.

Jacobo Kaufmann has also studied La Familia Carvajal by Alfonso Toro, a book published in Mexico in 1944, based on many other original documents related to the members of this family, to their friends, and to the customs and every day life in the New Spain of the 16th.

LuisdeCarvajal always appears with the name adopted by himself, that is to say: Joseph Lumbroso.

www.autores.org.ar /jkaufmann/English/Carvajal.htm (1668 words)

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West of the city rises the Cerro delas Mitras, so called because the profile of a bishop with his mitre (mitra) can be seen along its upper edge.

La Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, with its XIX Century buildings and where the national Baseball Hall of Fame is located.

An expedition led by LuisCarvajalydelaCueva established a settlement in the area called San Luis Re di Francia but was frustrated by the Inquisition and the persecution of the Sephardim among the colonists.

The original territory of El Nuevo Reino de León (the new kingdom of León) is a portion of the original expanse of land that was given in a concession from Felipe II of Spain to LuisCarvajalydelaCueva in 1579.

His constant noting of traces still alive from the era of Carvajal and Montemayor made me aware of the unfathomable depth of narrative and memory that lurked behind the facade of the new industrial city that believes itself to be an active member of the First World.

De Certeau writes that the "return of the repressed," narratives pushed aside for political reasons, are later manifested in "mystical expression." The stories described in this ethnography border on the mystical and the fantastic.

LuisCarvajalydelaCueva was born in Magadouro, Portugal, in 1539 in a New Christian family (Jewish converts to Catholicism).

Significantly, the charter allowed the Blood Purity Laws (Pureza de Sangre), which stipulated that Spanish immigrants to the New World be at least 3 generations of Old Christian, to be lifted in an effort to encourage migration to this remote province beset by attacks by indigenous tribes.

Monterrey has two soccer teams, the Tigres, who play in the stadium of the Universdad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and the "Rayados", whose home stadium is the stadium of the Instituto Tecnológico yde Estudios Superiores deMonterrey.

In the year of 1577, José LuisCarvajalydelaCueva founded the village of Saltillo, and Santa Lucía, present Monterrey, and discovered the mines of San Gregorio, located in what is now Cerralvo.

On May 31, 1579, LuisCarvajal, signed the capitulations with the King Felipe II for pacificar and to establish the state of Nuevo León, in this contract was authorized to do it in an extension, that not to exceed to 200 leagues by side.

Cerralvo is located in the northeastern region of Nuevo León, in the region of the coastal plain of the gulf and in the cattle raiser-agricultural, northeastern economic zone that is formed besides by the municipalities of Agualeguas, General Treviño, and Ocampo.

The Conversos ancestors on my father side were associated with LuisCarvajalydelaCueva, a Converso who had received authority from King Phillip II to settle the northern frontier of New Spain in 1574.

Carvajal's claim was called the New Kingdom of Nuevo León, which included the modern state of Nuevo León and a large track of land extending west from the Gulf of México to Chihuahua and north to New México and Texas.

Carvajal fell in disgraced with the Viceroy and the México City Audiencia who investigated Carvajal's genealogy and found that indeed he was a Converso.

It borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west.

It was originally founded by Alberto del Canto, although frequent raids by Chichimecas, the natives of the north, prevented the establishment of almost any permanent settlements.

Subsequent to the failure of del Canto to populate Nuevo Leon, LuisCarvajalydelaCueva, at the head of Portuguese and Spanish settlers, requested permision from the Spanish King to attempt to repopulate the area.

The Nuevo Reino de León would be a “land of living war” and the slavery of the natives would construct a strong tradition whose eradication would be very difficult.

Before being taken prisoner to Mexico City, Carvajal appointed, as his deputies, Gaspar Castaño de Sosa in Coahuila and Diego de Montemayor in the city of León and towns of San LuisydelaCueva.

In this manner, in the middle of 1590, the Nuevo Reino de León was left totally deserted and they even stopped making slavery “forays” in its territory and the road to Huasteca was abandoned and all communication with the region of Pánuco was cut.